NEW MART SHIRTS FOR SALE
Check out the shop for the newest MART shirt.
Some sizes of the last round still available
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Check out the shop for the newest MART shirt.
Some sizes of the last round still available
posted by M.A.R.T. at 9:26 PM
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Bizarre Magazine has always been kind toward the MART, but when i stumbled on a stock pile on Staten Island, i saw that our own Nate Hill was featured in the last two issues of Bizarre and new member Bonnie Wood is included in the current issue. check it out
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It is great to see the multimedia website put together by a group out of the Columbia School of Journalism. Special thanks to Tom Davis and Mathilde Picard for including members of MART. This web issue includes Nate Hill's Chinatown Taxidermy Tour, Jeanie M's taxidermy How-To, a multimedia slideshow of Rogue's outside NYC (aka Bonnie Wood and Scott Bibus) and a Taxidermy Hot Spot google Map.
What more do you need?
posted by M.A.R.T. at 10:10 AM
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RIP Minneapolis Phone Phreak Joybubbles (moved to minneapolis on june 12 1982 because the date was the area code 6-12). his perfect pitch allowed him to whistle tones into the phone gaining him access and free call.
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Congrats to MART Member Nate Hill for all the attention he has received over the A.D.A.M (A Dead Animal Man) Project. The open studio was all that he promised: stinky, packed and at least one vomiting visitor.
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A.D.A.M. (A Dead Animal Man) is a life-size human sewn together from
animalparts. It was created by Brooklyn artist, Nate Hill, who has
been a rogue
taxidermist since 1999. After a year in development, the A.D.A.M. Project
is complete, and for one night it will be unveiled to the public in an open
studio event.
Mr. Hill, obsessed with imitating God, embarked on creating his first human
being with a needle and thread using animal parts from everywhere from NYC
Chinatown garbage to Florida roadkill. Now complete, the A.D.A.M. Project
is a stirring sight that you will never forget. Ever.
The thirteen species included in the finished human being are: chicken,
conch, cow, crab, deer, dog, duck, eel, fish, frog, lobster, rabbit, and
shark.
Here Mr. Hill gives you a sneak peek:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q-J7HABuPI
A complimentary face mask will be provided for all who attend because this
event will smell.
Photography and video are welcome.
Email for directions: stoproadkill@gmail.com
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At the end of the year, we think of all the people who we care about. Add one more to the list. (from Bonniegrrl's site)
"Steve Brewster, Scoutmaster of the Bettie Scouts of America got a call from the hospital at 10:26am cst, 12/26/07. Bettie Page has taken a turn for the worse.
She has fallen weaker and having trouble breathing and they believe she has pneumonia. She is 84.
Offer a prayer, if you are so-inclined, or at least think some warm thoughts..."
The Rogues will be thinking of her!
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The thing you’ve been waiting for with bated breath, the thing around which your love of variety revolves:
Volume 9 of SHOCKED AND AMAZED! is now available!
In its grand and glorious – and new, new, new! – pages, you’ll find:
• Blow-out interviews with cover boy Tim “Zamora the Torture King” Cridland, one of the most extreme performers on the planet; Manuel King, billed in his day as “The World’s Youngest Animal Trainer”; and Karen Forsythe, 10-in-1 worker in the old days and once-girlfriend of Popeye!
• A major photo essay on the Bros. Grim Sideshow, one of the only old-time 10-in-1 shows, a faithful recreation of the carnival & circus sideshows from the 1930s!
• Up close & friendly instructions on how to create your very own fakir act! (Just don’t try this at our house!)
• A truly revealing detective tale on tracking the real Joseph Pujol, a.k.a. Le Pétomane, the original fartomaniac!
• The tale of “Snake” King, the man who supplied nearly every carnival show in his day with the most exotic animal attractions!
• Major pieces on the history of both minstrel & medicine shows!
• The latest installments from NEW editor D.B. Denholtz on the history of Hubert’s museum in NYC; Walt Hudson’s scintillating “Coney Island Baby”; and the rarest of rare pictures of 19th century variety as showcased in “The Strand”!
• and let's not fail to mention fantastic cover art by Mark Frierson and illustrations by Kevin Gerrone and James Mundie
Hey, it’s a volume as un-PC as we could make it, and it’s all for you. And it’s already being called our best looking – and best reading – volume in the brand’s history, so why don’t your find out for yourself?
And you may see it elsewhere, but go NOWHERE else for you ultimate fix but www.shockedandamazed.com. If you get it somewhere else, well, it just ain’t YOUR best guide to the weird, the bizarre, the strange, the odd and the unusual, your SHOCKED AND AMAZED!
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Good to see the MART out in Brooklyn. Attended: Nate Hill, Takeshi Yamada, Robert Marbury (judge) and Jeanie M sent a piece from San Francisco. Check out photos of the show. Thanks again to Union Hall and the Secret Science Club.
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Don't miss the year’s most beastly Day of the Dead event . . .
The Carnivorous Nights Taxidermy Contest
Friday, November 2, 2007 at 8 PM
@ Union Hall
Enter your taxidermy to win!
Show off your beloved moose head, stuffed albino squirrel, sinuous snake skeletons, jarred sea slugs, and other specimens. Compete for prizes and glory!
The contest will be judged by a panel of savage taxidermy enthusiasts, including the American Museum of Natural History's collections manager for mammalogy Darrin Lunde; Robert Marbury, co-director of the Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermists; and Dorian Devins of WFMU and the Secret Science Club!
Don’t miss the wild taxidermy talk by beast master Brian Wiprud, author of Stuffed, Pipsqueak, and Tailed
Prizes for best stuffed creature, most interesting biological oddity, and more!
Meet—and try to beat!—last year’s Grand Champion of taxidermy, Takeshi Yamada of the Museum of World Wonders
Plus! Taxidermy-inspired tunes and video . . . and ferocious specialty drinks
CONTEST RULES: The contest is open to taxidermy (homemade, purchased, found), preserved and jarred specimens, skeletons, skulls, gaffs … and beyond. (Note: Wet specimens must remain in their jars.)
ENTRANTS: Please arrive at Union Hall at 7 pm to log in your beast or specimen, and contact secretscienceclub@gmail.com to pre-register. Share your taxidermy (and its tale) with the world!
SPECTATORS: Cheer on your favorite specimens!
No cover charge. Just bring your beastly self. Doors open at 7:30. LIMITED SEATS AVAILABLE.
Union Hall, 702 Union St. (at 5th Ave.) in Park Slope, Brooklyn, p: 718.638.4400
For more information, contact secretscienceclub@gmail.com
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Check out the Chinese Mitten Crabs, which can live in fresh or salt water. Can travel overland and has no predators in Us waters.
Moving quickly up the east coast of the Atlantic.
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The extinction of the baili, a mostly blind pointy nosed fresh water dolphinfrom the Yangtze River could be the first large mammal extinction documented in 50 years. For six weeks a research team from six nations searched the yangtze for signs of the Baiji without any luck. The Baiji, separated from other Dolphins, Whales and aquatic mammals over 20 million years ago. This extinction is significant since this species was not overhunted, but probably died out due to overfishing techniques like "electrofishing".
for more info visit the Baiji research page or read on the article on the BBC.
posted by M.A.R.T. at 10:36 AM
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The beautiful, intellegent and talented Suzanne G has been at it again. Besides bringing talented artists together and debeloping an awesome shop, she had now made an incredible Cabinet of Wonder featuring talented artists and animals forms. See the collection and she has also created a great sideshow, er slideshow
we remain in awe.
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Another Coelacanth was found in Indonesian water off the northern coast of Sulawesi. Thank Justinus Lahama for pulling in the four legged fish-beast. read more on the BBC site.
posted by M.A.R.T. at 10:50 AM
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The Nate Hill's Chinatown Garbage Taxidermy Tour, un-officially sponsored by the Brooklyn Auxilliary of the MART (although Nate bought the beers this time), was a huge success. Keep your ears open, since the invite is on the sly. This last event was followed by HD network, the Daily News and a cast of characters. Read the description in the New York Mag.
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Takeshi Yamada, one of the Working Members of MART, will have a FREE live public Mythic Creatures Taxidermy demonstration at the American Museum of Natural History on June 24 (Sun), 2007 in Manhattan, New York. This is a FREE event upon purchasing the normal museum admission fee at the entrance.
This is the part of the Mythic Festival with over a dozen performers, dancers and artists on the day at the AMNH. (The Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns & Mermaids exhibition on the 3rd floor by the dinosaur exhibition, which features documentary film of Yamada and his Sea Rabbit of Coney Island needs separate ticket. This special e exhibition will run until January 6, 2008, and it will travel to other natural history museums including the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, IL.)
Yamada’s four hour long taxidermy art demonstration (1 – 5 pm) at the first floor of the AMNH reveals some of his unique techniques of creating Fiji Mermaids, giant carnivorous clams, dragons, etc. at his Cabinet of Curiosities. Examples of them are “high speed degreasing”, “skin adjustment”, “stuffing”, “replication”, “simulation”, “rouging”, “combining”, “gaffing”, “blending” and “greasing”. At his demonstration site, Yamada will also exhibit over a dozen of his creative taxidermy artworks and sideshow gaffs of monsters and marvels such as 4-feet Fiji mermaids, 3-feet Dragons, 3-feet Giant Sea Dragon, 7-feet Giant Anaconda Worm, 3-feet Giant Alligator Clam, 3-feet prehistoric Giant Horseshoes Crabs, 3-feet Sea Rabbit, etc. For more information see the AMNH website.
posted by M.A.R.T. at 9:56 AM
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Canadian Rogue Mirmy caught Takeshi and Nate's appearance on the Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos on CBC. Want to get a peak at what the Garbage Tour of Chinatown might have been like?, check out the episode. as Takeshi says "when you leave even one grain of rice on your plate, god will destroy your eyes!"
Brilliant!
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The newly formed Brooklyn Auxiliary of MART members turns out in force to Nate Hill's Chinatown Garbage Taxidermy Tour. Keep your eyes out for the next tour. In this photo, Takeshi Yamada and Nate Hill look on in amazement at the riches they have found at the third stop on the tour.
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Check it out!:
You're invited on a FREE tour of the New York City Chinatown Garbage.
Did you know you could make art out of dead animals? YES! I am
going to show you how to collect dead animals from the garbage in
Chinatown to make your own personal taxidermy! This is the first NYC
CHINATOWN GARBAGE TAXIDERMY TOUR! You will learn how to dig in the
garbage for dead animals. You can make art out of these animals.
It's really cool!. I've found everything from sharks to frogs to
plain old unidentifiable crap. Sometimes I find nothing interesting,
but that is what makes it fun. You never know! RSVP is appreciated
but not all required. RAIN OR SHINE.
DATE: THURSDAY, JUNE 14TH
TIME: 10PM
MEET: THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF CANAL STREET AND LAFAYETTE STREET
ABOUT ME (YOUR GUIDE): My name is Nate Hill, a Brooklyn artist who
makes new animals from dead animal parts. I sew together random
animal parts to make a new animal that doesn't really exist (see pic
below). Many of the parts I have used over the years have come from
Chinatown's garbage.
WHAT TO WEAR: I suggest wearing clothes you don't mind getting dirty.
Long-sleeve shirts are also good to keep your arms clean. Also fully
enclosed shoes are recommended.
THE FOLLOWING ITEMS WILL BE PROVIDED: latex gloves, first aid kit, wet
wipes, and antibacterial gel.
DISTANCE: We're not going to be walking far. The tour consists of my
favorite spots that are just within a few blocks of each other.
HOW YOU WILL RECOGNIZE THE GUIDE: I will be holding an 8x11 sign that
reads "CHINATOWN TOUR".
WHAT TO BRING: You may want to bring a plastic bag if you want to take
a souvenir with you. You may also want to bring a flashlight, though
I've never used one. I search by "feel".
DURATION OF THE TOUR: About 45 minutes.
TRAIN DIRECTIONS: Take any train to Canal street and walk to the meeting point.
DISCLAIMER: I cannot prevent you from injury on this tour. Rummage
at your own risk. I have never been injured when digging my hands in
fish crap, but the possibility is always there. SAFETY FIRST. Beware
of sharp objects. It is very important that you are very careful and
move your hands slowly. Treat that box of dead fish like a lady.
EVEN MORE IMPORTANT: After the tour is finished, I invite you to
drinks at the bar Home Sweet Home located at 131 Chrystie St at
Delancey street.
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One of the great urban beasts died on 04 27 07. Eddie Boros is responsible for the three story high wood and stuffed animal tower (trash tower) that accends above the Ave B and 6th st community garden in the East Village. NY. Eddie's art was a huge influence in the beginnings of the Urban Beast Project and I met with him many times to talk about stuffed animals in public places and the urbanizing effect.
My favorite piece of advice concerned how to get squirrels to stop living in your over sized stuffed animals high up in the trees.
Cayenne pepper, he told me. Squirrels don't like it so much. They will pretty much get out and won't come back.
Eddie's persistance and vision will be missed in an every condo-ized East Village.
RIP
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To see real examples of Jackalopes, or what happens to a rabbit when it is infected with Shope papillomavirus, visit Chuck Holliday's page. Looks like most of these examples came from Minnesota. Must be in the water.
Labels: jackalope
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It has been awhile. We have been busy in our hibernated state waiting to bust out with the new spring..
But the closing of The American Dime Museum in Baltimore is big news. There are heaps of gaffs, relics and oddities up for auction. Check out all of the sale items and follow along on ebay Monday February 26th at 5 pm
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Mikita Brottman wrote a really great article on PopMatters about several MART members. Check it out.
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MART is keeping busy and bundled up. Even if it does not feel cold to you Minnesota can still feel like winter.
Not many updates for now, but we are hoping to have some big stuff coming your way.
Happy New Year to all.
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James Brown dies on Christmas Day. Give the drummer some.
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This weeks episode of the Showtime crime drama Dexter, called "Circle of Friends" features a bunch of Rogue Taxidermy, some of it supplied by Co-Founder Scott Bibus. "So Lifelike..."
check it out....
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The Great Autumnal Taxidermy Get Together was a huge success!!!
Thanks to everyone that came out and enjoyed the night.
We had a chicken masterclass/gamefeed and the Contest was great.
Congrats to all the winners, but especially to Nate Hill, who got the Squirrel Scrotum "You're friggin Nuts" Award.
AV Jones, who won a MART membership with his Canceled Flight inspired Pigeon
And Takeshi Yamada who won a Membership and was crowned "Grand Champion"!
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